#u

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table. ↗

— Lily James

#attack #give #had #mum #panic

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ↗

— P. D. James

#forgiving #friends #good #liking #obligation

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me. ↗

— Rick James

#created #i #image #james #just

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell. ↗

— Richard D. James

#feeling #got #had #hair #i

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#husband #ideal #who #wife #woman

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ↗

— P. D. James

#days #english #frequently #life #memory

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. ↗

— P. D. James

#detective #detective story #murder #order #restoration